3 “Listen! Behold, the sower went out to sow.
4 And it happened that while he was sowing, some seed fell on the side of the path, and the birds came and devoured it.
5 And other seed fell on the rocky ground where it did not have much soil, and it sprang up at once, because it did not have any depth of soil.
6 And when the sun rose it was scorched, and because it did not have enough root, it withered.
7 And other seed fell among the thorn plants, and the thorn plants came up and choked it, and it did not produce grain.
8 And other seed fell on the good soil, and produced grain, coming up and increasing, and it bore a crop—one thirty and one sixty and one a hundred times as much.
9 And he said, “Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear!”